Posted on 10/10/2014 9:42:45 PM PDT by steve86
“...and watch out for those sneakers and tennis shoes in those waves - they can be painful.”
When I first saw the headline I thought that they had found a bunch (a “wave”) of sneakers with the foot still in them.
From the web:
“The most famous case of this happened between 2007 and 2011, when a dozen human feet washed ashore in the Pacific Northwest.
... But investigators from British Columbia and Washington State were able to confirm that most of these feet found on beaches from Washington Vancouver belonged to people who either committed suicide, died of natural causes, or were the victims of an accident.”
I got caught in one of these waves once...
A late August evening in northern Oregon, walking with a buddy. We were about 200’ from the surf and it was low tide.
The moon was bright and we heard an unusual noise - there was a wave coming at us! We ran away from it, it was easy to see in the moonlight, but as young and healthy as we both were at the time it was too fast for us.
We jumped onto a LARGE piece of driftwood and the wave washed under the driftwood and sprayed us. The wave must have gone up the beach another 200’ or so (this is a very shallow beach and the tide typically goes in and out 1,000’ between high and low tide - it’s not like Newport, CA).
We were fine and a bit wet. The two older ladies that took a walk after the movie got out in the town to the south of us did not fair so well. Not at all.
“I got caught in one of these waves once...”
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Glad you made it——I never even heard of sneaker waves but I’m on the East Coast.
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For a moment I thought of lines of gangbangers waitng for sneakers and a few fatalities
Neither Vancouver, Canada, nor Wancouver, WA, are on the coastline.
Wow..where exactly did that happen....? We go to a house on north oregon coast regularly
shouldn’t turn their back on the surf.
I learned that pretty quick when I was in Hawaii! And it hurt!
Not until the the big M9.5 reshuffles the coastline, anyway.
Driftwood is what will kill you when a sneaker wave hits.
Gearhart.
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